"We will increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan by deploying a Marine battalion this November and in January 2009 an Army brigade combat team -- both units that had been slated for Iraq, " Gates said.
Beyond that, if my recommendations are approved, that unit's departure will be followed by the withdrawal of a brigade combat team without replacement in mid-December, and the further redeployment without replacement of four other brigade combat teams, and the two surge Marine battalions in the first seven months of 2008, until we reach the pre-surge levels of 15 brigade combat teams by mid-July 2008.
Inouye was a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up of Nisei, second-generation Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the Mainland.
Volunteering for the Army, he packed off to Vietnam in December 1967 at age 19 as a fire-team leader and was wounded in combat.
The prince, a veteran combat helicopter pilot, mingled with the 35-member British team and then sat on a gymnasium floor in a circle of 12 sitting volleyball team members, batting the ball around amid whoops and laughter.
The team is trained in military tactics and outfitted with combat-style gear and weapons.
He was assigned to the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson five months later.
He is a 21-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
But he said his team tried developing a resource strategy-only game and a combat-only game, and both felt like they were missing something.
Alexandre Tombini, the affable central banker from Brazil, tried to brush off long-term concerns when I asked if the president's economic team was behind the curve when it repeatedly slashed interest rates to combat a slow-down.
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